Benjamin Noys, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: A survey-talk and Sheena Malone In (the) place of the oak by CuratorLab public program

Benjamin Noys, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: A survey-talk and Sheena Malone In (the) place of the oak by CuratorLab public program

Monday 14.3, 18:00 and 19:00

CuratorLab public program at Tensta for The Standard Length of a Miracle with Goldin+Senneby.

18.00 Presentation: In (the) place of the oak by Sheena Malone

Drawing on strands as diverse as conceptual art, folklore, history, and economics, the mighty oak tree at Tensta Konsthall provides the backdrop to In (the) Place of the Oak. The audience are invited to gather around and listen, echoing the nights spent in ritualized meditation in Marly forest by the members ...

CuratorLab public program at Tensta for The Standard Length of a Miracle with Goldin+Senneby.

18.00 Presentation: In (the) place of the oak by Sheena Malone

Drawing on strands as diverse as conceptual art, folklore, history, and economics, the mighty oak tree at Tensta Konsthall provides the backdrop to In (the) Place of the Oak. The audience are invited to gather around and listen, echoing the nights spent in ritualized meditation in Marly forest by the members of Acéphale. During the talk, both familiar and unfamiliar narratives will be explored, and the boundaries of fact and fiction will be blurred, thereby creating new mythologies or revising older ones. From an acorn, a glass of water grows.

Arranged by Sheena Malone, participant at CuratorLab, Konstfack.

19.00 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: A survey-talk by Benjamin Noys

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice departs from Goldin+Senneby’s Headless project and inquires whether it can be seen as an “imagination of exteriority,” a peculiar attempt to both escape and excavate the structures of the financial capital in an act of mimicry. By mimicking market rules, Goldin+Senneby’s artistic practice features an example of what the surrealist and philosopher Georges Bataille called “The Sorcerer's Apprentice”: something both liberated and governed by uncontrolled forces. Benjamin Noys is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Chichester and the author of Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction (2000), The Culture of Death (2005), The Persistence of the Negative (2010), and Malign Velocities (2014).